By Melodious Monk<\/p>\n
Jesus once told us, “Truly, I say to you, ‘Everything you ask for, praying, believe that you will receive (it), and it will be done for you.’ ”<\/p>\n
All this week during communion we sing these words from Matthew in the Communion proper for the day.\u00a0 As I stand waiting to receive communion, I’m aware of who’s in my immediate vicinity, a Catholic man from New Jersey, a Methodist from Texas, and several elementary and middle school aged kids, all of us singing this prayer together.\u00a0 I don’t know why it caught my attention, but it struck me that all of us from very different backgrounds and age groups were being united through prayer and through this song.<\/p>\n
And I wonder what each of us was asking God this morning? Perhaps a wide variety of things.<\/p>\n
Among many, one thing on my mind was the headline to the Boston Globe<\/em> I saw on the way out the door this morning; that 5 people were killed in a synagogue in Jerusalem, four of them while praying, and the 5th man trying to protect the others.\u00a0 I wonder what these men were asking of God in their house of worship. \u00a0 I wonder how God’s “in-box” works for all the requests he must receive. Does he sort them by the ones that are sent with belief, and the ones without?\u00a0 I find comfort in praying. But in my pieces of prayer tossed to the heavens, do I actually believe that they can and will happen?\u00a0 Or do I only ask?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By Melodious Monk Jesus once told us, “Truly, I say to you, ‘Everything you ask for, praying, believe that you will receive (it), and it will be done for you.’ ” All this week during communion we sing these words … Continue reading ![\"The](\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/nov18-249x300.jpg\")
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